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Zachary Wipff

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Paranormal Folklore in Western Georgia: A Critical Narrative Analysis of Apparitions

Anthropology of Consciousness September 1, 2025 Jacob W. Glazier, David S. B. Mitchell, Zachary Wipff et al.

ABSTRACTWe use Critical Narrative Analysis (CNA) to examine collected apparitional accounts within the geographic region of Western Georgia in the United States. We discuss the extant local folklore on ghosts in the literature while providing a methodological backdrop. The analysis of the data yields four dominant discourses, which are countered in five salient ways: through (1) the extension...